| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac: Good stout shirts of strong linen are what you want. Ha! when a man
starts from nothing to reach fortune, he has to keep down to bare
necessities. Look at Monsieur Desroches; he did what we are doing, and
see where he is now."
Godeschal preached by example. If he professed the strictest
principles of honor, discretion, and honesty, he practised them
without assumption, as he walked, as he breathed; such action was the
natural play of his soul, as walking and breathing were the natural
play of his organs. Eighteen months after Oscar's installation into
the office, the second clerk was, for the second time, slightly wrong
in his accounts, which were comparatively unimportant. Godeschal said
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lysis by Plato: make to them--must we not admit that they speak the truth?
We must.
They will then proceed to ask whether the enemy is the friend of the
friend, or the friend the friend of the enemy?
Neither, he replied.
Well, but is a just man the friend of the unjust, or the temperate of the
intemperate, or the good of the bad?
I do not see how that is possible.
And yet, I said, if friendship goes by contraries, the contraries must be
friends.
They must.
Lysis |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Richard III by William Shakespeare: As if the golden fee for which I plead
Were for myself; and so, my lord, adieu.
GLOUCESTER. If you thrive well, bring them to Baynard's
Castle;
Where you shall find me well accompanied
With reverend fathers and well learned bishops.
BUCKINGHAM. I go; and towards three or four o'clock
Look for the news that the Guildhall affords. Exit
GLOUCESTER. Go, Lovel, with all speed to Doctor Shaw.
[To CATESBY] Go thou to Friar Penker. Bid them both
Meet me within this hour at Baynard's Castle.
Richard III |
